Re: PROPOSAL: i74: Encoding for non-ASCII headers

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> I agree with everything Julian said, except:
> 
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> TEXT already allows C1 controls (and always did) 
>> (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-latest.html#rule.TEXT>):
>>
>>   TEXT           = %x20-7E | %x80-FF | LWS
>>                  ; any OCTET except CTLs, but including LWS
>>
>> That being said, I'd like it to exclude C1 controls.
> 
> If C1 controls _in the form of octets %x80-9F_ are excluded, and HTTP
> agents begin to reject TEXT containing those octets, it will be harder
> to transition to UTF-8 later.  (In case you'd forgotton, UTF-8 uses
> those octet values for normal characters).

No I didn't. Good point.

> ...

BR, Julian

Received on Thursday, 3 April 2008 20:27:24 UTC